Johnathan's Blog

I have typed ss thousands of times. For most of those, I was really only asking one thing. What is listening on this box, and who is talking to it? I would run ss -tlnp, skim the output, and move on. The columns to the right of the addresses were noise I had trained myself to ign…

This is how I write. Tangentially how I think. I do not use em and en dashes. I do not use in-paragraph colons. I rarely reach for semicolons. I use parentheticals for asides. I don't use emojis. I use sentence-case, not Title Case, for headings. I capitalize abstract nouns to t…

I'm an avid reader of many different topics however, as a software engineer, I obviously read a fair bit about technical topics. Much of the time I'm reading to learn for application. I've gone through a number of job application cycles where, I have the skills, but I think the j…

Focus I think focus is the most valuable quality that we all have. Above all else. It is so valuable that pretty much everything in society is trying to steal it from you. Honesty, Accountability, and Reliability are all traits we want in people. I want my President to be all of …

Hello World. Is this thing on? Testing. 1, 2, 3. Finally. Cloudflare sucks sometimes.